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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New...
The following graphic story by Zahra Marwan, an Albuquerque-based illustrator, explores themes of migration and statelessness. The story is told through a series of visual vignettes based on the...
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A Turkish Star is Born: The 1970s Remake That Launched the Career of Turkey’s...
The following is written by Ilker Hepkaner, a PhD candidate in NYU’s Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department. His dissertation research focuses on the identification of Jews from Turkey in...
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Pixelated: How Shaheer Zazai Digitalized Afghan Carpets
A resident of Amsterdam, Saba Askary is a researcher and curator in the field of Art History and, with it, concepts of changing our past and future through new interpretations. She is currently...
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My Parents Don’t Talk to Me: Photography & Intergenerational Silence in Georgia
The following is an interview with Giorgi Rodionov and Nino-Ana Samkharadze, members of the Tbilisi-based photography cooperative, the 90x collective. Ajam editor Rustin Zarkar spoke with the...
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جامعهی ایرانیان آفریقائیتبار: ماورای چهرهی سیاه حاجی فیروز، برده داری و...
این مقاله در سال ۲۰۱۲ به زبان انگلیسی به چاپ رسید و در سال ۲۰۱۹ توسط مرودین توماسزاده به زبان فارسی ترجمه شد. For English, please click here. یکی از دوستانم دو روایت از سفر اخیرش به ایران را با من در...
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When Hamlet Speaks Persian: A History of Shakespeare Translation in Iran
Samuel Tafreshi is an Iranian-American writer based in Beirut, Lebanon. He holds a BA in Religion and his work has focused on comparative analysis of Persian and Western literature. *** Reading Hamlet...
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Ibn Sina as Corona Meme: The Internet Afterlife of a 1950s Soviet Film
The following article is written by Nicholas Seay, PhD student in the Department of History at Ohio State University interested in Central Asia’s cultural history. His current project looks at the...
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Critical Code: Ramsey Nasser on Video Games, Art, and Public Discourse
The following article is the third of a series titled,“Pixelated” by Saba Askary. While spaces dedicated to the medium pop-up and museums actively collect it, ‘digital art’ is still considered a...
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When did Afghan Cinema Begin? A History of Kabul’s Filmic Pasts
The following article is written by Chihab El Khachab, a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology in Christ Church, University of Oxford. His research interests are at the intersection of cinema, media,...
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Ajam Podcast #19: A Cinematic History of Iranian Cosmopolitanism
To download the episode, subscribe to us in the iTunes store, Spotify Podcasts, and Google Play. In this episode, Rustin interviews Golbarg Rekabtalaei, an Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall...
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